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Adolf Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, or "Wacht am Rhein," was so successful initially that it created a huge bulge in the Allied front lines.
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was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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A second atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki.
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship Missouri. World War II officially ends.